empressement

Example Sentences

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At the station M. Bouc was greeted with respectful empressement by the brown-uniformed Wagon Lit conductor.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

There was an empressement in the servant’s manner, that told the visitor he would be made welcome.

From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne

On the spur of that smile Ernest greeted his cousins with a degree of empressement that they certainly wouldn't have been honored by without it.

From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida

In Society, too, he felt himself the object of a curious empressement; on all sides he was courted and flattered, and rival dealers were inquiring the price he set on his wares.

From An Engagement of Convenience A Novel by Zangwill, Louis

He received my advances with very great empressement indeed, and we had a good deal of pleasant chat.’

From The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)